Tunnel 50 Metres East of Priory Church is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Artificial tunnel.
Tunnel 50 Metres East of Priory Church
- WRENN ID
- mired-keep-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Artificial tunnel
- OS grid reference
- NZ 116 983
- Coordinates
- 55.27885, -1.818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure is an artificial tunnel located 50 metres east of the Priory Church at Brinkburn. It is likely a grotto or folly, built in the late 18th century or early 19th century. The tunnel is made of roughly-squared stone and has an L-plan layout. It features a short barrel-vaulted passage that is 1.8 metres high, which runs north before turning east into a longer, slightly larger tunnel, with an overall length of approximately 22 metres. The tunnel is not genuinely subterranean; it was constructed in a dug trench and has been infilled above the vault.
Local climate
Tunnel 50 Metres East of Priory Church receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Stable Block to North West of Priory
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